Word: captains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still determined, Harvard hitters began the long trek back. Pete Varney had three hits, while Peter Bernhard, Dan DeMichele, and captain John Ignacio each contributed two. In the Sixth inning, Varney smashed a two-run homer to tie the ball game...
Harvard's success was reflected in the tournament all-star selections. Bragg, Powlison, Rennard, and McGill were all chosen. Bragg, the Crimson captain, was not overwhelmed by the selections. "All of the guys on the team played well enough to be chosen for the all-star team, but the method of selection made it practically impossible for this to happen," he said...
...Harvard captain mentioned first-year law student Lee Faust in particular. "Lee was especially deserving of all-tournament status, but because of his unselfish team play, he was overlooked by the selection committee," Bragg said...
...Captain Bruce LoPucki teed up first against Yale's Hank Willner. After nine holes, LoPucki was on up. But in the second nine, he ran into early trouble. He was one down coming up to the 15th hole. LoPucki birdied the par 4, 315-yard hole and went on to win the next two holes. He finished with a 2 and 1 victory...
Vigo's focus on mental experience is even clearer in a subsequent sequence where the captain, swimming underwater, sees his wife's face. The shifting appearance of his objective surroundings blends with the illusion superimposed on him: his wife is present in both metaphor and fact. The film's last shot does the same through another semi-metaphor for personal experience. The couple reunited, the barge casts off, and Vigo cuts to a very high shot of the barge (from an airplane) which sweeps over it as it sails down river. The shot is a metaphor for their continuing progress...